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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Five Quarters of Profitability During the 1980’s and through the mid 1990’s startups going public had to do something that most companies today never heard of – they had to show a track record of increasing revenue and consistent profitability. There was now a public market for companies with no revenue, no profit and big claims.

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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

The first hint lies in its name; this is a product development model, not a marketing model, not a sales hiring model, not a customer acquisition model, not even a financing model (and we’ll also find that in most cases it’s even a poor model to use to develop a product.) So what’s wrong the product development model?

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SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent.

Steve Blank

And it was going to mention the two words that SuperMac marketing needed to live and breathe: revenue and profit. This year, marketing need to provide sales with 40,000 active and accepted leads, company and product name recognition over 65% in our target market, and five positive product reviews per quarter. It didn’t take more.

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Why Content Marketing Evaluation Should Start With A Good Plan And Research

YoungUpstarts

You want the leads – leads convert into actual business revenue while the other objective ideas build audience numbers. Sign up for their newsletter or RSS feed. Get 5,000 email subscribers within six months. Double your website traffic within a year. Get 500 new Facebook likes a month. Here are a few easy ways to do it: 1.

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Finding The High Converting PPC Keywords That Are Right Under Your Nose

ConversionXL

Also, work with available sales or ecommerce revenue reporting to dig into the time between when a visitor first becomes a lead or enters items into the cart and the time they close as a sale. Core brand terms include things like business name, site name, and terms directly related to discussion of your business e.g. yoursitename.com reviews.

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Free Website Feedback, Custom Card Designs, Finding Good Domain.

Software By Rob

→ Free Website Feedback, Custom Card Designs, Finding Good Domain Names, and more… Cool News, Links & Reviews If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Long Live the King.

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What the Beatles Can Teach Us About Starting a Company

Software By Rob

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Get Feedback Early and Often The Beatles began playing out under various names within a few months of forming in 1957, when John and Paul were 16 and 15, respectively. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? This didn’t happen by accident. 3 Brad on 10.11.10